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Carroll County Memorial Hospital is Stepping to Wellness

10/14/2013

Wellness is more than a word at Carroll County Memorial Hospital. The Administration under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Tindle, is instituting programs that assist employees in making wellness a way of life. “The first principle for anyone to understand is that wellness is a journey, not a destination,” Tindle shared. “The second thing for everyone to understand is that wellness is personal but the benefits reach beyond the individual.”

CCMH conducted a Steps Challenge, in partnership with Cerner Wins, to promote physical activity for employees. In this challenge, employees counted their steps daily using a pedometer or other device to accumulate the most steps in a weekly period. Teams of four were formed and team name and team captains were chosen to begin. “We have some very creative employees,” noted Jeff Tindle, “some of the names were unforgettable.” Twenty-two teams in all registered with eighty-eight employees total.

Teams tracked their progress and the progress of the other teams and participants through the Cerner Wins website. “Web based scoreboards allowed real-time results, mass messages from the Commissioner (the competition’s judge), and the “chatter” or trash talking between participants,” shared Brandyn Gladbach, who served as the Commissioner for this Challenge.

Weekly prizes were awarded to ensure players were active and staying on top of the competition. “Since we were tracking both individual and team results, the weekly challenges were divided between the two groups,” says Gladbach. These prizes were awarded based upon random drawing of men and women with at least a 10,000 step average, team step averages over and under 10,000 steps, underdog awards, and most improved awards. At the end of the competition, a grand prize of $500 per team member was awarded to the team with the highest step count.

“The competition exceeded all expectations”, Tindle noted during the award presentation. A corporate challenge was set of 61 million steps. The reward for achieving this level of participation was that Friday’s, for the remainder of the year, would be “Casual Friday”. “This challenge was not met, but exceeded by nearly 7 million steps. The total competition resulted in nearly 68 million steps for an average of 13,530 steps per day. 18 participants had more than a million steps, and 5 participants had more than two millions steps.”

The competition ended September 27th and the results are in:

Team

Average/Day

Total

Steppin' To The Bank (1)

33,935 Player Avg

1,968,233 Team Avg

Roberta Thudium (2)

36,313

2,106,161

Kim Henderson (4)

34,613

2,007,570

Irma Straub (6)*

33,141

1,922,214

Kerry Straub (7)

31,672

1,836,988

DNR: DO NOT RUN (2)

30,758 Player Avg

1,784,008 Team Avg

Walkie Talkies (3)

21,058 Player Avg

1,221,413 Team Avg

X-RAY-TED (4)

17,613 Player Avg

1,021,606 Team Avg

Agony De Feet (5)

16,079 Player Avg

932,609 Team Avg

Mama's In Motion (6)

14,855 Player Avg

861,614 Team Avg

Tiaras & Toddlers (7)

14,772 Player Avg

856,797 Team Avg

Captain Phillip and the Flatheads (8)

13,441 Player Avg

779,610 Team Avg

Thundering Herd of Estrogen (9)

12,797 Player Avg

742,260 Team Avg

Candy Stripers (10)

12,561 Player Avg

728,558 Team Avg

Holy Walkamolies (11)

12,323 Player Avg

714,765 Team Avg

High Steppin Grandmas (12)

10,978 Player Avg

636,762 Team Avg

Rehab Addicts (13)

11,107 Player Avg

633,090 Team Avg

Walking For The Win (14)

10,175 Player Avg

590,195 Team Avg

Beauty and the Beasts (15)

9,078 Player Avg

509,944 Team Avg

Between A Walk and A Hard Place (16)

8,550 Player Avg

495,916 Team Avg

Chafing The Dream (17)

8,329 Player Avg

483,100 Team Avg

50 Shades of Awesome (18)

8,279 Player Avg

480,205 Team Avg

Sassy Momma's (19)

8,000 Player Avg

464,044 Team Avg

Team Lab (20)

6,947 Player Avg

395,939 Team Avg

Gary's Angels (21)

7,454 Player Avg

333,699 Team Avg

50 Clicks (22)

5,730 Player Avg

332,345 Team Avg

In addition to the team prize, the top individual was awarded $500 cash prize.

Robert Crawford (1)

38,084

2,208,916

The Steps Challenge is incorporated into the wellness program, Target Health, that CCMH began in February of this year. The goal of this program was to incentivize employees to achieve healthy habits and lifestyles. Target Health allows the employees of CCMH, and their spouses, to earn points in three categories: tobacco free lifestyle, wellness assessment and wellness activities. A point earned by a participant enrolled in the corporate health plan translates into a dollar of premium reduction, while a point earned by those not enrolled translates in $0.50 incentive. “We went all in this first year,” Shannon Jordan, Chief Operating Officer at CCMH notes, “(CCMH) purchased individual health benefits for all full-time employees with the understanding that we invested in them the first year and it was up to them to determine the premium the following year (2014). It was our hope, that through the efforts of our staff, our overall cost of claims would be reduced which would translate in savings for the facility through our partial self funded health plan. We (CCMH) would then in turn be able to share these savings with our employees through premium reductions. We could not be more pleased with the level of participation and the outcomes we are seeing as a result of these programs.”

CCMH plans to share this program with community employers in 2014. This is in line with the organizational values of dedication to the community and partnerships that deliver comprehensive services. “Target Health allows us to challenge other employers to practice preventative health and wellness. The ultimate goal would be to see the health statistics for our community improve with a corresponding reduction in co-morbidity,” states Mrs. Jordan. For more information, or to find out how you can participate, contact Shannon Jordan, COO at shannonj@ccmhospital.org

For more information about the services at Carroll County Memorial Hospital or an appointment, visit our website www.carrollcountyhospital.org or call 660-542-1695.